2022-03-21

Let’s learn about "잡다” verb"

* 잡다 : 1 (1) [=손으로 쥐다] catch; get; take; seize; hold; take hold of; grasp; grip; clutch (2) catch; [=체포하다] arrest; seize; capture; catch; get; take; seize (3) take; seize; [=가정하다] assume; wield (4) [저당 잡다] hold (a thing) in pawn [on mortgage]; take (a thing) on security [mortgage] (5) [=고정하다] fix; [=결정하다] decide; settle; determine; choose; reserve; book (6) [=잘못을 지적하다] find (fault); [=결함을 찾아내다] pick [point] out (a person's defects); look for (a fault)
2 [=예측하다•예상하다] estimate [put] (the expenses) at (500 thousand won); make an estimate (of); compute (one's losses) at (20 million won)
3 (1) [=도살하다] butcher; [=죽이다] kill (animals); [=살인하다] slaughter (2) [=계략을 꾸미다] plot against (a person); slander; ensnare; entrap (3) [=불을 끄다] put out [extinguish] (a fire); get [put, bring] (a fire) under control (4) [=뒤처지지 않고 따라가다] get a grip on oneself; steady (one's mind); settle down; hold [get, put] (one's passion) under control; collect [calm] oneself
4 (1) [=직선으로 만들다] make straight; [=펴다] straighten out [up]; unbend
(2) make (a crease); fold [arrange] (in pleats)

ex)

1. 멱살을 잡다 : grab[seize] sb by the collar[throat]

2. 저 놈 잡아라! : Catch him!

3. 살충제로 바퀴벌레를 잡다 : kill cockroaches with insecticide

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